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Joe Lample.

Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

Show.

It's another geek alert today, and this one goes out to all of you who have experienced

some level of frustration with using coconut core for your seed starting mix.

And I know most of you who start seeds are aware that you have options.

Pete Moss has been the time tested, go to one for decades.

But coconut core has come on strong lately as a Pete free alternative, and now we have

other Pete and core free options available that are showing promising results.

But we'll save that discussion for another day.

Today it's all about core, and I know that many of you share the same frustrations that

I have had trying to get the core seed starting mix to perform as well as Pete Moss for

growing out our plants that you've started from seeds.

For some of you, it has performed very well and you've had no issues with it.

So to be clear, given the right circumstances, it can work beautifully.

But for the majority of the people that I've been hearing from, core is producing less

than satisfactory results, sometimes dramatically so.

And in my case, over the course of three years of experimenting with it and continuing to

get the same unimpressive and underwhelming results, especially compared to Pete Moss and

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